Veteran journalist Sabita Goswami reminisced that according to Government sources, more than a thousand people were killed in the clashes.

The news of the massacre was reported after several days as the attackers had destroyed several bridges leading to the remote area.

[4] In the 1960s, thousands of Bengali Hindus fled the persecutions in East Pakistan and arrived as refugees in West Bengal, Assam and other north-eastern states of India.

In Lakhimpur District of Assam the Bengali Hindu refugees were settled by the central and state governments in Silapathar and other places.

After a few months the government provided the survivors some tin sheets and ration and disbanded the relief camps.